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The Mighty Weretyrannosaurus for Pathfinder

Posted on December 23, 2013 by Hunter — 1 Comment ↓
Jungle Giant Weretyrannosaurus hybrid form, art by Dan Smith

This is another self-challenge: the lycanthrope template in Pathfinder allows it to be applied to any humanoid creature within one size category of the base animal. So how big to Pathfinder animals get? There are a couple of Colossals—the great Continue reading →

Posted in Gaming | Tagged bestiary, dinosaurs, lycanthropes, pathfinder | 1 Reply

Urrakur: A troll Storm Kindler pirate for Pathfinder

Posted on November 23, 2013 by Hunter — No Comments ↓

As I was knocking around some character ideas and checking out the Prestige Class options, I noticed that the Paths of Prestige‘s Storm Kindler had the unusual prerequisite “Must worship a god of storms.” (This is unusual in that it’s Continue reading →

Posted in Gaming | Tagged pathfinder, pirate, troll, urxehl | Leave a reply

jhunterj Does Gen Con, 2013 Edition

Posted on August 21, 2013 by Hunter — No Comments ↓
KoT tournament wolf

So this was, perhaps, my 18th consecutive Gen Con; I believe my streak started in 1995. This year, as last year, I boothed for IELLO Games USA. I had many friends among the nearly 50,000 attendees, a few of which Continue reading →

Posted in Gaming | Tagged cosplay, dr. horrible, gen con, guardians' chronicles, iello, king of tokyo, lexi farron strife, pivothead, titanium wars | Leave a reply

Kaladrax for Pathfinder

Posted on July 2, 2013 by Hunter — 1 Comment ↓

Back in August, Reaper Miniatures had an insanely successful Kickstarter campaign to launch their “Bones” line of plastic miniatures. By the end of the campaign, the add-on stretch goals were enough to entice even me, who’s never painted a miniature Continue reading →

Posted in Gaming | Tagged dracolich, dragon, kaladrax, kickstarter, miniatures, pathfinder, reaper | 1 Reply

Monsters on the Virtual Prowl

Posted on May 2, 2013 by Hunter — No Comments ↓

Another of my GURPS books made the jump  to PDF from e23: GURPS Monsters can now be yours in instant download from: http://e23.sjgames.com/item.html?id=SJG30-6418 It just went “live” on April 25 and has been selling briskly, as far as my experience Continue reading →

Posted in Gaming, Writing | Tagged gurps, gurps monsters | Leave a reply

… Or What?

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Hunter — No Comments ↓
Coach and Sam discussing salesmen in the Cheers episode "King of the Hill"

Sam: I mean how much for the whole thing? Coach: Oh, six hundred bucks Sam, but the salesman said, the salesman said satisfaction guaranteed. Sam: Or …? Coach: Now, that would have been a good question. I was reminded of Continue reading →

Posted in Gaming, Writing | Tagged cheers, the resistance | Leave a reply

GURPS Cryptology

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Hunter — No Comments ↓

Another article resurrected from my previous website. This was intended to be an article for Pyramid magazine, but was too dry or too long for acceptance there. I’ve never updated it for GURPS 4th Edition. (Perhaps playes of that system could tell Continue reading →

Posted in Gaming | Tagged cryptology, cyberpunk, gurps | Leave a reply

Quizgle in Beta!

Posted on March 26, 2013 by Hunter — No Comments ↓
Quizgle screenshot

Quizgle is live! Quizgle is a puzzle game where you have to guess the words that were used to generate the displayed search results. At a game of five rounds, you can share your result to see if your friends can Continue reading →

Posted in Gaming | Tagged puzzles, web development | Leave a reply

RoboRally Chess

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Hunter — 3 Comments ↓
King Twonky and four chess dice pieces

Inspired by this comment, I decided to come up with a chess variant for RoboRally. I wanted to keep the programming aspect of RoboRally and the multiple pieces & capture-the-king goal of chess intact. Programming a “side” of 16 bots would Continue reading →

Posted in Gaming | Tagged house rules, roborally | 3 Replies

At the Orc Butcher

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Hunter — 1 Comment ↓

An orc cook goes to the orc butcher and asks for some prime elf steaks. The butcher says “It’s not ‘prime’ these days. Elfmeat went to ‘good’, ‘plusgood’, ‘doubleplusgood’.” “Oh. Okay, gimme some plusgood elf steaks and some doubleplusgood pixie Continue reading →

Posted in Gaming, Writing | Tagged puns | 1 Reply

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